The message Jesus gave (the Gospel) is Life Giving and God-honouring; it reunites us back to God and provides the way for us to overcome death, and live forever.
In Ephesians Chapter 2 we read that those who have not yet received God’s grace through belief in His Son, are dead in their sins. In the gospel message, we read that in Christ’s act on the cross as a substitute for us, we are made alive. The gospel does this by providing the solution for the one thing that has kept us apart from God, and that was sin. Like water and oil, God and sin can’t mix, simply because God’s only response to sin is to reject it as a right and just God. But because God did not want to be apart from us, he sent his only son to experience the rejection meant for us, so that we could be reunited with God.
The mechanism by which we are reunited with God therefore, is Jesus rejection by His Father in our place. That is what happened on the cross: Jesus suffered rejection by His Father in His death; God’s son without sin, did not deserve rejection and death because he was perfectly obedient to his father, but did so, so that our sin problem could be fixed forever. Jesus said that those who believe this have passed from death to life today!
The Gospel therefore is life-giving as we see our lives restored into the proper order that God had destined for mankind, under His great love for us and under His rich mercy.
Further to the Gospel being life-giving, the gospel restores mankind into our proper place as God’s children, to love him as he had created us to do. Therefor, sharing the gospel is God-honouring, putting God into his proper place, as the Father who made us and who loves so much. No better reasons to share the Gospel is there then to see lives changed, and God honoured for his name’s sake and to his glory!.
The Gospel that Saves 